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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are so grateful to Dr. I. B. Sharma , Associate Professor
and Head of English Department for his valuable continuous help
and assistance during preparation of the thesis. We really
appreciate teacher Mohammed Al-Kaladi who spent a great deal
of his valuable time repeatedly proof-reading the manuscript with
a sense of admirable involvement and valuable suggestions. We
are profoundly indebted to them for their help to us to complete
our research.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION………………………………………………………….. I
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………….. II
TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………… III
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………… IV
CHAPTER Page
- Introduction………………………………………………………………….. 2
- The importance of the research……………………………………………… 3
- History of English in Yemen………………………………………………… 5
- Current status of English in Yemen………………………………………….. 6
- TESL with special reference to the reading comprehension…………………. 7
- Future prospective………………………………………………………….. 10
- Value of the study………………………………………………………… 11
- Hypotheses………………………………………………………………… 12
II- LITERATURE REVIEW………………………………………………….. 13
- Introduction………………………………………………………………… 14
- What is reading?............................................................................................ 14
- RC skills………………………………………………………………… 17
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- SKIMMING……………………………………………………………… 17
- SCANNING……………………………………………………………… 18
- EFFECTIVE READING……………………………………………… 19
- GOOD READERS………………………………………………………… 20
- POOR READERS………………………………………………………… 21
- DEVELOPING READERS………………………………………………… 23
- Introduction………………………………………………………………. 28
- CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………… 50
- REFERENCES……………………………………………………………… 51
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INTRODUCTION
attracted the attention of the whole world and made of itself a spoken
Yemen policy has recognized the great importance and the urgent
need for establishing mutual relationship with this worldwide language as
to get into the cart of globalization. However, it asserted the need for
looking deeply into the effective policies, strategies and methods fertilize
for cultivating and growing future generation of fluent speakers.
Nevertheless, it adopted within its future plans different types of strategies
that based on practical, statistical studies regarding the English language.
The research falls into three chapters. The first chapter focuses on
The third and the most important chapter, the analysis of data
obtained from the questionnaire is presented in great details. It also
provides detailed subjective interpretation of the data of the hypotheses.
At the end of this chapter, the conclusion and the research findings
included. A glossary of references are also mentioned at the end of the
research.
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